Oh no I'm just realizing that arxiv will be increasingly spammed with what should have been a blog post. I hope I'm wrong in assuming that in a few years the level of credibility that comes with a paper being on arxiv will have entirely worn off.
I know that in theory arxiv, being a pre-print server, shoulnd't give any credibility but practically that is the case and it still is a good quality/bs filter compared to e.g. Medium articles.
In my field, ArXiv has about the same level of credibility as Wikipedia or random journal articles from the International Journal of Sciency Science, i.e. trust, but verify. Among non-peer-reviewed documents, they rank below things like DoE or NASA reports and tend to not be cited.
There are preprints of articles since then published (which have the same credibility as the peer-reviewed article), articles form mates (which are obviously great), and the rest, which might be interesting but not a solid source on its own.
It seems to be working as intended, to be fair. ArXiv has precious little ways of improving the accuracy of the preprints.
